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Baliol College

Oxford

OXl 4JE

Tel: 12 34 56 67

08 / 02 / 20..

The Brasshouse Centre

50 Sheepcote Street

Birmingham B16 8AJ

Dear William

I trust you are well. It was good to see you at the Brasshouse last month. As you know, I have decided to defer any training in TEFL for the time being and get some "hands on" experience. I have been selected to teach English conversation classes to school-children in Romania this summer. I think I will relish the challenge! I have been up at Oxford for some eighteen months now and I write to tell you of my progress.

I recently completed the First Public Examination in Literae Humaniores at Baliol College, Oxford. Honour Moderations is quite a gruelling set of twelve three-hour examinations lasting just over a week. We affectionately know the as the Twelve Labours of Hercules. Urban myth has it that only the Chinese Civil Service Examinations were more intense, and they were attenuated on Human Rights grounds! You will be happy to hear that I achieved First Class Honours in this examination.

It was not only "Mods" that I brought to successful fruition last term, but also, as Executive Producer, I organised the O UDS New Writing Festival. I liased with the BBC and London Drama Schools such as RADA to generate interest in script-writing amongst the students at Oxford, raised funds from the Cameron Mackintosh Board and secured the involvement of three professional theatres to house performances of the winning scripts. My next dramatic endeavour is a bid to direct the forthcoming Oxford Greek Play 2002, in the original language!

For my Greats course (Finals), I shall be reading papers in Literature and in Philosophy. In Literature, I have chosen Aeschylus, Latin Literature of 1st Century BC, and Modem Greek poetry. In Philosophy, I have chosen to read Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, Philosophy of Religion and Plato's Republic. My mark for Plato's Euthyphro and Meno at Mods was the highest that David Bostock awarded. I am glad to have been able to combine a broad-ranging interest with a deep attention to detail.

Having now completed my academic commitments for the term, I am taking up an invitation to visit my family in Jamaica. The sojourn will be my first in my mother's native country and I shall undoubtedly meet relations that have hitherto been unknown to me. My cousin and I hope, among other things, to bring up to date our family tree by meeting our extended family. It will be a life-changing / affirming experience. I am going to Jamaica this Easter to discover my past, before I return to Oxford to forge my future.

Yours cordially,

Hamish McDermott